USAID AND WORLD BANK UNITE CHURCH AND STATE

Government Money Silences the
ChurchWhile Turning it Into a Partner in Crime

By a little known alliance established
between major religious organizations in America and the United
States government, the longstanding wall of separation between church
and state has been effectively torn down. It appears that the
Seventh-Day Adventists, the Catholics and Jewish organizations have
been the major profiteers from their league with the government, yet
this league also involves most other religious bodies as well.This unseemly union has been formed under the guise
of humanitarianism, but there is a larger agenda than appears on the
surface. The issues involved here compromise the mandate of both
church and state.

The partnership incorporates the churches
with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), a federal
government agency that conducts foreign aid to advance the political
and economic interests of the United States. Its stated function is
to disburse foreign aid to the developing countries of the world. To
phrase it as the Federal Highway Administration does, "this is your
tax dollars at work;" your tax dollars are indeed at work here, but
whose interests are they working to advance and whose hands are being
stained with complicity and duplicity in promoting USAID's agenda?

USAID AND THEIR OTHER PARTNERS

According to a Los Angeles Times
article, USAID relies on a host of Nongovernmental Organizations
(NGOs) to achieve its goal of advancing the United States' foreign
policy. "For generations, the U.S. government has worked to foster
America's image as benevolent benefactor to the world's needy. Most
people do not realize, however, that this often amounts to goodwill
by proxy. (US)AID has come to rely more heavily than ever on a
network of 417 private groups, sharing an annual pot of $1.4 billion.
[1]

As incongruous as it may seem, some of the
largest recipients of USAID funds--United States tax dollars--go to
religious organizations. According to the L.A. Times report,
the Seventh-Day Adventist (SDA) church through its Adventist
Development and Relief Agency Inc. (ADRA) "was given more direct U.S.
funding than all but three organizations out of more than 400 federal
program participants. The Adventists [ADRA] received $85 million in
federal cash, food and freight, plus tens of millions more from other
nations and donors during the last two years for which reports were
available." [2]

According to a USAID annual report, the
Adventists are joined by the Catholics, Lutherans, Mennonites,
Nazarenes, Salvation Army, United Methodists, Jewish organizations
and others. These churches gather in almost ecumenical-like fashion
for their allotment of federal tax money.

The Times report calls the
Adventist partnership with the government "ironic," saying the church
founders equated the United States government with the biblical
"beast." "Now, says Queens College sociologist Ronald Lawson, an
Adventist, the church has become "an arm of American foreign
policy." [3] Equally ironic is the church's
announcement that ADRA's "educational" program "Global Village" is
operated in partnership with the World Bank.

Realizing that USAID uses these funds for
the advancement of U.S. political and economic interests, it would be
well to examine one of the major objects of its current focus.
Central to U.S policy for the past eight years has been the Iraqi
sanctions. According to human rights groups, the principal casualty
of this policy is young children under five years of age. The leading
cause of death in these children is malnutrition, put more bluntly,
starvation.

About one-and-a-half million people,
mainly children, have been killed by the sanctions. That equates to
about five percent of the Iraqi pre-sanction population. This is
equivalent to about thirteen million dead Americans. Most of the
Iraqi people live in poverty and approximately one-fifth are
threatened with famine. The per-capita income has fallen from $2900
to the current sub-survival average of $60 per year. Mideast
Realities reports that a can of powdered milk costs more than a
doctor's monthly wage, a tray of thirty eggs costs more than a
university professor's monthly wage.

Referring to the death and destruction
inflicted on the Iraqi people resulting from American foreign policy,
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was asked if the cost in human
suffering was worth the gain to the United States. Albright
commented, "It's a hard decision, but we think the price is worth
it."

For such atrocities, the Adventists, the
Catholics, the Jews and all of the other religious organizations
involved with government foreign policy, make themselves responsible
for those things government does. Their willing collaboration with
the State indicates where their true allegiance lies.

SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE?

Speaking of the Adventists, one USAID
official said, "We have found them to be a good, solid partner." What
this statement actually says is, the Adventists and other religious
groups have become good, solid partners in the work of moral
destruction, tyranny and revolution that is represented in the system
now being "lovingly" imposed on the world. The "caring" church
participates in the process through its union with international
policy.

USAID forbids proselytizing by the
organizations using USAID grant money because the United States and
other countries prohibit the use of their funds for religious
purposes. The government, however, effectively uses the churches as
evangelistic mediums for their brand of religion, crusading for
democracy around the globe. Donald Falkenberg, a top official of
Global Mission and brother to the SDA church president says ADRA "'is
not out there proselytizing,' he acknowledged, however, that the
effect has been to heighten the denomination's profile with local
residents. Adventist sociologist Lawson said the church's intent
perhaps can best be seen in the candor of a relief worker he met in
Africa, who confided: 'If I'm going to build a road, I'm going to
have it go past an Adventist church.'" [4]

Discerning USAID's agenda will also reveal
the true motivations of many prominent religious organizations whose
mission has been coopted to serve another sinister global mission.
The omission that proselytizing is not what the churches are doing is
ominous considering that proselytizing is the very foundation and
mission of the Christian faith. To not proselytize is to acknowledge
the power of the state over them since it is the state which commands
just how a church now under their financial umbrella must behave and
what they must say. They, in fact, proselytize for the U.S.
government and the United Nations while being silent in regards to
their own faith. This is to what they all agree. If these religious
organizations do not do what they agree to, they practice deceit in
regards to the federal government for the motivation of attaining
money.

WITH WHAT ARE NATIONALIZED "CHRISTIANS" UNITING?

According to its web site, USAID is
actively involved in promoting the interests and goals of the United
Nations including:

Global warming -- the
scientifically untenable hypothesis promoted by the UN to develop
and tighten controls on the countries of the world.

Promoting sustainable development--Everything Must Change,
according to USAID administrator J. Brian Atwood. The pursuit of
"sustainable development" will require nothing less than a
"comprehensive revision of institutions, practices, and attitudes
on the part of every human being." The result of this plan is
"downward harmonization" - the reversal of U.S. living standards
to the conditions existing in most Third World countries.

United Nations Population Fund--Although rarely stated
publicly, it is the aim of these international bodies to reduce
earth's population to what they consider a sustainable level. This
is the goal of many of their programs.

Cairo plus five--The UN Cairo conference on population and
development held five years ago is actively being promoted by
USAID. The Cairo agenda promotes such population control programs
as those imposed on China. This includes forced abortion for
families exceeding the "one child" limit. USAID is involved with
building support for the "Cairo consensus."

USAID administrator J. Brian Atwood
addressed the World Affairs Counsel in October 1998. He further
clarified the role USAID is playing in the implementation of the
globalism's agenda as it is quietly imposed on nation after
nation. Atwood stated, "Secretary of State
Albright summarized the essence of what we need to be doing: 'In the
wake of the Cold War, it is not enough for us to say that Communism
has failed...we must heed the lessons of the past, [and] take
advantage of the opportunity that now exists to bring the world
together in an international system based on democracy, open markets,
law and a commitment to peace.'"

THE NEW SYSTEM

Politicians and bureaucrats are masters in
the art of government double speak. Beneath the guise of flowers,
their words paint a descriptive picture of their well-matured plans.
Ms. Albright and Mr. Atwood speak of an international system based on
democracy, open markets and law.

The democracy of which they speak is more
accurately defined as World Social Democracy. This democracy is the
rule of the majority who have been manipulated by the media and other
propaganda agents to shape and condition the thinking into alignment
with the will of these background rulers. In this democracy
individual "freedom" is lost in favor of "rights" granted to the
individual by the state. All rights originate with the state; and
make no mistake, what the state grants, the state can take away. Like
prices, rights are subject to change without notice. One select group
may have rights that infringe and trample on the rights and freedoms
of others. This is allowable in their democracy. Freedom of speech,
freedom of thought, freedom of religion consists in subscribing to
the state's views on appropriate speech, thought and religious
beliefs. Inalienable rights endowed by the Creator have no place in
this new international scheme.

The open markets of which they speak
actually mean the eradication of national sovereignty. It means that
a major multinational corporation can move its operation into your
city or country without seeking your permission, thereby, destroying
local and national enterprise. By merit of their size, they can
dominate the economy of a country killing the native economy. It
means that no longer can a developing country stand up to outside
corporate power which can move in at will, ruin the economy, then
threaten to move out if their demands are not met. Ultimately, the
corporation rules.

Open markets leave a country vulnerable to
outside takeover and manipulation, which is the primary object of
these powerful interests. The World Bank is urging developing
countries to liberalize their capital markets, putting developing
economies at the mercy of Wall Street speculators.

An open market system, such as is being
called for today by the powerful elite, is a system which tyrannizes
the people of the world. It leaves countries open to corporate
dominance, to be plundered at will. It is a free system only to the
rich and powerful. Commentator Noam Chomsky says, "The whole farce is
standard and natural under the rules of 'really existing free market
capitalism.' The biggest thug on the block basically does what he
likes." [5]

THE WORLD BANK - ANOTHER FACILITATOR OF TYRANNY

Headquartered amid opulence in Washington
D.C., the World Bank works to project a caring image. While their
offices in the nation's capital are undergoing a renovation "at a cost
of $314 million" [6], the Bank urges
austerity measures for the world's poorest people. At the same time,
James Wolfensohn, the Bank's president, warns that maldistribution of
income threatens global stability, yet "his 74 senior officers each draw
a salary of $120,000." [7]

On a broader scale, the Bank's policy is
responsible for widespread destruction both socially and economically
throughout the developing world. Through its Structural Adjustment
Programs (SAPs) the Bank manipulates internal policy within a
country. With most Third World nations, the Bank's entering wedge is
through its offer of loan money for a price. The cost usually comes
in the form of concessions which benefit the Bank and its larger
interests - consolidating its gains - drawing the state more firmly
into their "INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM."

When countries become overburdened, unable
to repay loans to the World Bank, the Bank creatively devises a plan
to alleviate the problem - - another loan. Catherine Caufield, author
of the 1997 book Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and
The Poverty of Nations writes: "The bank called these 'structural
adjustment loans,' and conditioned them on the borrowing country
agreeing to convert to a free-market economy (defined later as "open
market" economy) by adopting reforms covering nearly every aspect of
life.

"The World Bank uses these adjustment
loans to 'roll over' the bad debts of borrowing nations--thereby
disguising the poor quality of the bank's own lending practices--and
to impose its ideology of economic reform on its borrowers.

"Perversely, under this arrangement in
which bad loans are covered up by new ones, the World Bank gains more
from failed projects than from successful ones. For as its lending
grows, so do its profits, and consequently its power and stature. The
more the World Bank lends to a country, the more it can insist on
being involved in domestic issues confronting the debt-ridden,
supplicant borrower."

Z Magazine stated in its February 98
issue, "World Bank policies have devastated the Third World. Between
1984 and 1990, developing countries under SAPs transferred $178
billion to Western commercial banks. So enormous was the capital
drain from the South that one former Bank director remarked: 'Not
since the conquistadors plundered Latin America has the world
experienced such a flow in the direction we see today.' By severely
restricting government spending...the loan terms of the Bank and the
IMF have eviscerated the state...leaving in its wake spiraling
poverty and hunger.

"After twelve years of following World
Bank and International Monitory Fund (IMF) - imposed policies, Latin
America is going through 'its worst period of social and economic
deprivation in half a century.'"

A case in point is the experience of Peru
in 1991. In exchange for $100 million from the United States, Peru
put in place the World Bank and IMF's "structural adjustment" policy,
opening its markets to United States' agricultural products. "As a
result, by 1995 corn cultivation fell tenfold. Under these conditions
four million people were pushed into extreme poverty. Consequently,
there has been a forced migration of impoverished peasants and urban
unemployed." [8] Many have turned to the
lucrative cash crop of coca (cocaine) as an alternative to
destitution. Corruption flourishes, drug trafficking has ensnared
many including political leaders, leading to the overall
destabilization of society. A large sector of the economy has been
criminalized as a result of these self-serving policies required by
the Bank and the IMF. The case of Colombia shows a very similar
history to that of Peru, the creation of a drug-driven economy, that
"requires" the internal intervention of the U.S.

Another "revealing example is Haiti. In
1981 a USAID-World Bank development strategy was initiated based on
assembly plants and agro-export, shifting land from food for local
consumption. USAID forecast 'an historic change toward deeper market
interdependence with the United States.' The World Bank concurred,
offering the usual prescriptions for 'expansion of private
enterprises' and minimization of 'social objectives,' thus increasing
inequality and poverty and reducing health and educational levels. It
may be noted that these standard prescriptions are offered
side-by-side with sermons on the need to reduce inequality and
poverty and improve health and educational levels, while World Bank
technical studies recognize that relative equality and high health
and educational standards are crucial factors in economic growth. In
the Haitian case, the consequences were the usual ones: profits for
U.S. manufacturers and the Haitian super-rich, and a decline of 56
percent in Haitian wages through the 1980's.

"It was the effort of Haiti's first
democratic government to alleviate the growing disaster that called
forth Washington's hostility and the military coup and terror that
followed. With 'democracy restored,' USAID is withholding aid to
ensure that cement and flour mills are privatized for the benefit of
wealthy Haitians and foreign investors (Haitian civil society), while
barring expenditures for health and education [for the poor]."
[9]

These internationalist power groups call
for strengthened civil society but always for self-serving purposes.
It is difficult for these consortiums to work their will on Third
World societies where there is no effective corporate structure or
state to work through. As in the case of Peru (and a hundred other
countries), it is the national government held hostage by these
"humanitarians" that enslave and degrade their own people.

In their official capacity these globalist
institutions speak in lofty, benevolent terms of reducing social
inequity, combatting poverty, fighting corruption, improving health
and education...but their destructive record speaks more forcefully
than their rhetoric. At the annual meeting in Hong Kong the Bank
displayed its hypocrisy by the use of caring words while at the same
time calling Third World countries to open their capital markets (to
exploitation by insatiable multinational corporate profit seeking).

"Many Southern governments made clear
their opposition to such liberalization in Hong Kong but the IMF,
backed by the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations, is going
to push ahead anyway. The insistence on capital liberalization is
revealing of the true agenda of the World Bank and the IMF since
1945: fully integrating the Third World into the global capitalist
system in the subordinate position of raw material supplier and open
market. The fulfillment of this agenda has involved the use of U.S.
military power in combination with the World Bank - IMF economic
programs to crush Third World governments aspiring to independent
development. No talk of poverty can hide such a brutal
enterprise." [10]

This world-subjugating "enterprise"
results from the threefold union of secular government, corporate
power and merchandising religious organizations. Each of these
entities has an individual agenda yet, by their union, all are
benefited.

CHURCH AND STATE -- THE FINAL CORRUPT UNION

The L.A. Times article stresses
that ADRA officials maintain they are rigorous in honoring the
division between humanitarian work and proselytizing. They say there
is no cooperation between ADRA and Global Mission, the church's
formal missionary arm, yet "the agency's (ADRA's) 10-year strategic
plan, developed in 1996, calls ADRA 'a bona fide ministry of...the
Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The church's mission is incomplete
without ADRA's distinctive ministry." [11] The
church inseparably identifies itself with ADRA which, in turn, has
identified itself with USAID, making the church inescapably
responsible for the agenda of both ADRA and USAID.

ADRA's mission is now focused on
fulfilling USAID's objectives, something one might expect from a
"good, solid partner." But how then can ADRA serve both the
government's interest (advancing U.S. political and economic
objectives) and the church's interest simultaneously? Have the
church's interests merged with those of the government's?

By their own accord, the Adventist church,
through ADRA and nearly all other religious denominations, has become
a partner with USAID - the U.S. government, the World Bank and the
United Nations. In this union they become an accomplice to the crimes
against humanity committed by this world-dominating cabal.

Do the churches realize what atrocities,
what systems of terror they become responsible for in aligning
themselves with the state? In the partnership of ADRA and their
fellow religionists with USAID is represented the final union of the
fallen religious bodies with the oppressive and corrupted state. The
monstrous offspring of this union is resulting in a system of tyranny
such as this earth has never seen.

The implications of this union of church
and state foreshadow ominous events. When religious bodies stretch
their hands across the gulf to grasp the hands of the world's secret
rulers, when they reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the
architects of tyranny, then this country will follow in the steps of
those who ruled the world throughout the Dark Ages, trampling on the
rights of conscience and debasing humanity.

This union is pictured in prophecy as the
woman who rides the beast or the church amalgamated with the state.
There is only one response made to such a confederation in scripture,
it declares that "Babylon the great is fallen,
come out of her My people, lest you have any part in her sins and you
share in her plagues." Scripture also
indicates the response of this threefold union to that
pronouncement. "The rulers and leaders
[the government] who joined in her immorality
[the church] and earth's
businessmen [the corporation] will weep and mourn because
no one buys their merchandise anymore, [no one "buys" their goods or believes their lies
anymore]." Rev. 18:2,4,9,11.

NOTES:

The Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1998

ibid.

ibid.

ibid.

"Market Democracy in a Neoliberal World," Noam Chomsky

Asad Ismi, Z Magazine, February, 1998

ibid.

ibid.

"Market Democracy in a Neoliberal World"

Z Magazine, February, 1998

The Los Angeles Times, August 14, 1998

Written 11/30/98

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